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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 15h

Tell me I'm crazy — shouldn't this show me day of the week, too? "November 4" means nothing without also sharing that it's a Wednesday. #shortMicrosoft

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 20h

Honestly, of all the things I need in life, last among them is Copilot.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I need your help. I can't keep going on Threads. It's awful there. Folks are thick and argumentative. No humour, no finesse. Where are the good accounts? Where's the scene that reflects the Twitter of old?

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@grammargirl.bsky.social Is there a term for when people accidentally mash-up two idiomatic expressions, e.g. "Push the needle" or "Tick off some targets"? I have a colleague who is addicted to this madness, not ironically or on purpose.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Folks, what are we doing about the unchecked propagation of fake-ass shit on the internet? Not even AI-generated — just genuinely unoriginal content. People are re-sharing stories from AOL chain letters c.1995. They are filming themselves doing an entire skit that someone else made. For clicks?

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Listen, if I won the lottery, I wouldn't tell anyone ... but I would not be putting up with this noise.

Various Microsoft applications are not responding.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

What the actual hell is @adobe.com smoking here? I'm in the middle of my working day — why would I want to send a PDF on WhatsApp?!?! I don't even have an account. And I never — ever — need these animated pop-ups in my software.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Seriously, when I have both Excel and Powerpoint open at the same time, I feel a bit disgusted with myself.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Anyone else think it's crazy that the entire sub-plot/theme of Spider-Man was "take a vacation"?

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Just when you thought MS Teams couldn't get more ridiculous. Buddy, it's the working day right now. Why would I want to schedule this message!?

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I nerd out for Passive Haus and other high-performance building technology. Triple-pane glass, cork spray coatings, hempcrete, recycled plastic roofing, hydronic cooling, etc. etc. People think I'm a weirdo. But go ahead and turn on the weather. Tell me we don't live in an extreme climate.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I gotta be honest, I forgot about Bluesky. Help me spend more time here (and less time on Threads).

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I assigned my students to design a menu for Kobe and some of theme came up with genuinely great ideas. Never ate there, though.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Home improvement is basically a series of 45-minute tasks that you put off for nine weeks at a time.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

"Victim? I hardly knew him." —Melania

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This one is great on several levels.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Serious question: Is this more offensive to Muslims or Christians? On the one hand, the most blasphemous, least pious individual ever is mock-praising Allah, but on the other hand, it's literally Easter Sunday! Also, Bridge Day sounds like a plausible Catholic holiday, a la Ash Wednesday.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Italy's rugby performance is rising, while their football team seems to be falling apart. Maybe it's just the dawn of a new day.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

No Easy Fix for Easy A's www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... Absolutely lands. When I taught, students expected *100* simply for showing up and breathing Oxygen. Killed me to not-fail the clowns who cared only to tick boxes. The top tier earned their As easily, by giving a crap in the first place.

theatlantic.com

Why Students Are Obsessed With ‘Points Taken Off’

Students and professors are in a drawn-out battle over grade inflation. It may never end.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

But seriously, what does it mean to be Best Picture? Are you saying everyone with eyes should see it? Is it the overall best-made film? The cleverest idea? The one that pushes the state of the art? Or just the one with the highest score of like/dislike according to the voting pool? #film #oscars

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Funny how I rarely check social media on weekends.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Studio: I want you to write the screenplay for the new Jurassic Park film. Writer: Cool. What's it about? S: The dinosaurs break free. W: But that happens in every movie. What's it _about_? S: I guess it's about humans repeating their same dumb mistakes. W: Indeed.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Next time you see someone committing punctuation atrocities, try using "This has more dashes than drunk Emily Dickinson sending Morse code."

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Can't wait till AI is able to clean cat vomit off my carpet.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The Ticketmaster-MLB.com-iOS ecosystem is a Möbius Strip of pain. Absolutely not an improvement over paper tickets or simple print-and-scan eTickets. What a total clusterfuck — requiring folks to have a smartphone with NFC just to see a Spring Training game?!

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Black don't crack. Asian don't raisin. Latin don't flatten. ... What else we got?

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

A skeet shooter and a biathelete ski into a bar ... the skeet shooter orders two shots, the biathelete says "is this your Après-skeet?"

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Being called an "armchair furniture designer" isn't an insult in a world where interior design is a spectator sport. cc @myqkaplan.bsky.social

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I still love Em — wait for it — dashes.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I know all the stuff about Bill Gates is true because why on Earth would anyone make that up?!!? What is there to gain from this being a fabrication? Between this, MS Teams, and that churros commercial, this dude has a great moral debt to repay.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Another day asking the tough questions (to Claude). iykyk #PCGaming #millennials The joke here is that we had this stuff coded as muscle memory because we figured it out through trial and error!

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Fun idea: Big non-fiction books about economics, history, etc. should be interspliced with short stories set in that world. Imagine reading a tome about the financial crash of 1929 and suddenly there's a great one-act play set in Brooklyn at that time.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I hate to admit it, but Facebook has the best video controls of any social. You can play/pause, skip ahead, and adjust the volume, not just mute/unmute. If that seems shockingly basic, trust your instincts.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

If you need a simple checklist for this year's Oscar nominations, here you go. (PDF, 75KB) Report back how many you can watch before the ceremony! dub.sh/PPF-Oscars2026

The 2026 Oscar nominations, as a simple one-page checklist document.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I need some genuine Film People™ to explain to me why I don't like Stranger Things 5, especially compared to season 1 (and maybe 2.) Is it the constant moving cameras (on cranes/drones?), the huge CGI set pieces and constant car chases, or simply the wooden acting and melodrama? Any takes? #film

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Tony Stark's strongsuit is in fact a strong suit. cc @myqkaplan.bsky.social

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CreativeMornings @creativemornings.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Come work with us! We're hiring a Support Coordinator to help make sure our global network of generous volunteers feel supported, connected, and equipped to thrive.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I feel like a good use of AI would be to create a #BlackMirror -style internet blocker that hides all mentions of a former employer in news, job boards, ads, etc. You'd think LinkedIn, of all places, would have that as an option — cut all ties!

Screenshot from Black Mirror where a person is blocked, and appears only as a grey form.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

A broken lunar calendar is right once in a blue moon.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Something odd regarding ChatGPT: It doesn't seem to know about itself. There's no in-built chat bot that knows the product's capabilities per se, instead it will just look at websites and published sources to leverage as facts. Seems like an oversight from its handlers, no?

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Can we get AI to help read and translate this data-dump of the Epstein Files? I can't be bothered reading correspondence with no capitals, no punctuation, improper contractions, etc. etc. etc. — how these people have any power in society is beyond me.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The phrase "slow and painful" is usually associated with your death at the hands of torturers, but it can be applied to anything, really. Traffic, bureaucracies, your job. Give it a try.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

We typically spend 12–18 years in school, followed by 40–70 years talking about what we don't learn in school. Maybe we should give school a break and just learn things whenever you encounter them.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

And maybe we can revive "Logorrhea" as a common word, but splice it with Algorithm ... Neologism and portmanteau: "Algorrhea" Uncontrolled algorithmically-generated spewing of words, often nonsensical in nature.

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I think for discussions of AI-generated verbal slop, we should include the word "gurgitate", without its usual "re." e.g., "I can tell AI wrote this because it managed to gurgitate 9 Em Dashes in 4 sentences." cc @grammargirl.bsky.social @myqkaplan.bsky.social

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Prescott Perez-Fox @scottperezfox.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Does the CIA still overthrow authoritarian governments who don't represent "American Interests?" Because, boy, have I got one for you ...

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